It rains continuously. This is the early spring in Lingnan. For several days, there have been moderate to heavy rains and local heavy rains in the northern part of Nanhai County. Novel .
Rain and fog are like twin brothers, appearing together every time, especially in mountainous and hilly areas, where thick fog is always present.
Ziying shivered. In this weather, no matter how much she wore, it was useless. She always felt wet, and even her bun would be covered with water drops.
It is now early January, and there are still more than twenty days before the meeting in Zhucheng. It was originally possible to make it in time, but now Ziying is a little unsure.
When setting off from Huangxi Pass this morning, Heifu suddenly informed him: "Due to heavy rain, the road from Yangshanguan to Lingbei has collapsed and the road has been blocked. It will not be possible to dig out for a while. We will have to change the route."
Ziying had no choice but to be unlucky, but he could understand it. Over the past year, he had traveled to and from Lingnan and Lingbei several times. He knew that those mountain roads were extremely easy to get blocked, so he could only make do with them while repairing them.
Fortunately, there was more than one road to the north. The group turned back and headed northeast, taking Beijiang Road, passing through the "Shaoguan" built by Heifu, then entering Yuzhang from Hengpuguan, passing through Nanchang to Zhucheng...
"The Supervisory Army has never walked through this road?"
While resting on the road, Heifu chatted with Ziying very warmly.
Ziying smiled bitterly and said: "The king's affairs are too busy to leave, so I can only take the shortest road, and I heard... There are people from Yue, the Mei family, on both sides of Beijiang Road. Although they have surrendered, if I don't
The army escorts us, but we dare not pass through the territory of this group of cannibals."
As he said that, he looked at the people who had set up camp in this pavilion. There were only a few hundred people, and he was inevitably a little worried: "Marquis Changnan, will the number of people you bring with you be a little small?"
Heifu spread his hands and said: "The Lingnan counties are very large and many places need to be guarded. So I have to send out some personal guards. I would like to call all the four thousand people to accompany me, but as the supervisor said, the emperor ordered
We are pressing hard, and we don’t dare to delay even a day. With a small team of people, we can go faster.”
He smiled very optimistically: "As for the Yue people? There is no need to worry. The Mei family has surrendered to the imperial court, and his descendants are still in our army as hostages. They are already very respectful!"
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Having said that, Ziying was still a little worried. He was suspicious along the way. He turned his head suddenly when he heard movement in the dense forest beside the road. Sometimes it was just tigers, leopards and wild boars walking around, but sometimes, he could actually see people with big tattoos on their faces.
The Yue people squatted in the bushes and kept staring at him. When Ziying turned around again, he had disappeared.
Fortunately, there were no accidents all the way to Shaoguan City.
Here, during the conversation between Hei Fu and Zi Ying, he began to recall the scene when he met Qin Shihuang.
"Although I have fulfilled His Majesty's order and made the Qin south to the north, but in the past two years in Panyu, I often heard about overseas affairs, so I came up with an idea."
Ziying understood: "Could it be going to the Queen Mother Kingdom of the West from the sea?"
"Of course."
Heifu held up his palm and said, "The supervisor must have heard of the 'Great Nine Provinces' spoken by Zou Yan of the Yin Yang family."
Of course Ziying had heard of it. Once upon a time, the magicians used this to lobby Qin Shihuang. However, following the incident of trapping the magicians, few people mentioned this again. Until the arrival of the Daxia people, this theory was once again mentioned by Zhang Cang.
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"Zou Yan thought that what the Confucians called China was one of eighty-one in the world. This was a bit too exaggerated, so Zhang Cang and I improved it a little."
What Heifu told Zhang Cang in his letter was that the prefectures were divided into large, medium and small.
According to the division of Yu Gong, there are nine small states in the Central Plains, Yong, Liang, Yu, Hebei, Yang, Jing, Yan, Qing, and Xu. Together, they form the "Chixian Shenzhou" named by Zou Yan.
This is "Central Kyushu".
And if we continue to copy the theories of the Yin-Yang family, there are eight Chinese states outside China such as Chixian, which are called Kyushu.
Heifu suggested that in order to distinguish it, it is better to add three points of water to Zhongjiuzhou, which is called "zhou".
"Zhangye in Hexi should be considered part of Yongzhou, and the Western Region should be considered the dry and desertified Pihai."
"Out of Congling in the west, there is another Zhongjiuzhou. Since it is said that the Queen Mother of the West lives there, it can be called the 'West Queen Mother Continent'!"
Ziying nodded, His Majesty the Emperor should like this title.
Heifu pointed to the cloud-covered Dayuling Mountains in the distance: "In fact, Lingnan is another boundary of Zhongjiuzhou. The characteristic here is that at many times of the year, the gate can face the sun to the north, which is called north direction.
Huzhou is OK."
Wangmuzhou in the west and Huzhou in the north. Although the name sounds strange, it is the same as "Chixian Shenzhou". It has four characters and is quite neat.
"Although the Yin Yang family said that each of the Central Kyushu states is surrounded by a sea of benefit, and that people and animals cannot communicate with each other, this was an outdated view decades ago. Now that the Holy Emperor is on the throne, the sea has become a smooth road, and buildings and ships can cross the East China Sea.
You can also cross the South China Sea!"
Hei Fu was full of longing: "I firmly believe that the world is interconnected. When Hei Fu goes to meet Your Majesty this time, he must explain the situation to Your Majesty and request that Your Majesty lead the boat division to go south and find a way to Huzhou from the north.
The sea route to the West Queen Mother Continent corresponds to the situation in Your Majesty’s dream, with white horses and black dogs heading west for him. If we encounter a strong enemy, the two of us can work together to wipe them all out, and we will definitely open up a smooth road for Your Majesty!”
Heifu said so excitedly that Ziying couldn't help but feel moved.
At present, there are not many people who believe that the Queen Mother State of the West exists and that Qin Shihuang can live forever. It seems that Heifu is one of the few.
"The Marquis of Changnan is so loyal and sincere!"
Ziying couldn't help but think of the words he had recently heard from Lingbei that "those who destroyed the Qin Dynasty are evil". It was really a gratuitous smear campaign!
On the road again, the weather became cloudy and rainy again. They walked and stopped, and Hei Fu also chatted with Ziying intermittently. They talked about how the emperor was doing when he returned to Xianyang last time. Is Prince Fusu okay?
It sounds like Ziying knows more than Heifu even knows through inquiring.
Heifu glanced sideways at Ziying, who was blowing air into the wooden lamp and drinking hot water, with a cold look.
But who knows if this is true or a lie?
Whether Qin Shihuang is still alive and whether the meeting in Zhu City was a trap set by the enemy has become an unverifiable mystery.
So, is there a snake oil answer?
"Whether Qin Shihuang is here or not, if he summons me to greet him this time, if he speculates with the greatest malice, he probably has only one purpose, and that is..."
Hei Fu, grabbed the jade around his waist!
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After walking for another day, Ziying saw that he was about to walk out of the forest and Dayu Mountain was approaching. Ziying couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. However, there was a slippery steep slope in front of him. It was difficult for the carriage and horses to move. The soldiers had to work hard to push the carriage.
Go up. "Let the supervisors go first!"
Heifu smiled, waved his hand, and asked Li Cang to lead dozens of people to send Ziying up first, while he waited at the bottom of the slope with the others.
When they reached the halfway point with great effort, Hei Fu was about to ask someone to push his car up when he heard a sudden scream in the forest!
Then, from the forest shrouded in thick fog, countless "Yue people" with broken hair, naked bodies and bare feet, covered with black mud, rushed out.
They held weapons and howled as they rushed towards Changnan Hou and others!
"Enemy attack!"
Li Cang shouted a warning, and hundreds of short-handed guards hurriedly responded to the attack down the slope.
But there were too many Yue people, there were actually two or three thousand people, shouting to kill the sky. Relying on the strength of the crowd, they actually broke the Qin soldiers into several sections, and then submerged Hei Fu's chariots among them.
!
"Hou Changnan!"
Ziying was horrified, and Li Cang tried to rescue him, but was forced back by several people.
"Li Cang, there are few of us and we can't save the prince, so we should go to Hengpuguan for help first!"
"I am a personal guard with short soldiers, how can I abandon the king and leave!"
Xiao Likang is worthy of being a disciple of Heifu. He has outstanding acting skills. He cursed and cried in public. In the end, his bodyguards knocked him out and threw him into Ziying's car.
"Go, go quickly, the Yue people are coming! Otherwise we will also be trapped in the enemy!" Bai Zhu kept urging.
"Protect the supervisors, protect the supervisors!" The soldiers on the side also shouted.
The situation was critical, and Ziying could not allow himself to think about it. Those "Yue people" were indeed divided into hundreds, and they were heading up the slope to kill fiercely!
Ziying could only lie passively on the car, holding on to the long crown that almost fell off, and turned around hastily, taking one last look down the slope.
He saw the flag of Marquis Changnan more than a hundred steps away...
The red cross dragon (qi) given by Qin Shihuang himself, which had been flying in the south of the Five Ridges for a long time, was shaken for a long time under the impact of the Yue people, and then broke in vain and fell down!
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At the end of January in the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shi Huang's reign, Qin Shi Huang's mighty army finally set foot on Anlu County, Nan County.
Originally they were supposed to arrive here ten days ago, but Qin Shihuang's illness relapsed several times along the way, and he had to rely on ginseng soup to help him get on the road, so he stopped and walked, which delayed a lot of time.
"Is this Heifu's hometown?"
Thin hands opened the car curtain and squinted to look outside.
It's just an ordinary small county.
The real supervisor of the Southern Expeditionary Army, the elderly Prince Cheng of Changwu Marquis, has been waiting outside the county town with officials of all sizes in Anlu.
But before the imperial chariot could enter the city, General Zhonglang and the Marquis of Wucheng, Wang Li, led a dirty man through the heavily armed Langwei formation and came to the chariot.
The man didn't care about his dignity anymore and knelt down ten steps away, bowing his head...
"Your Majesty, this is Zuo Geng Gong Sun Ying..."
"Ziying?"
Qin Shihuang was a little surprised. Shouldn't Ziying take Heihu to Zhucheng? Why are you here?
After the emperor signaled, the curtain was slightly opened by Zhao Gao, the commander of the CRRC. Only then did Ziying look up and saw the gray beard of his uncle Qin Shihuang.
This man in his thirties could not hold back his tears.
"What happened?" Even though his body had run out of oil, Qin Shihuang's voice remained as calm as ever.
"His Majesty!"
Ziying bowed again and said sadly: "The Marquis of Changnan, the Marquis of Changnan..."
"He was attacked by Vietnamese and died on the spot!"
Qin Shihuang's white beard trembled.
In order not to let others see his weakness, Emperor Qin Shihuang easily stopped getting out of the car, but he suddenly stood up from the car, came to Ziying, and asked one word at a time:
